Foreign Secretary James Cleverly has warned that help for thousands of British nationals trapped in the country will remain “severely limited” until a ceasefire is called.
Tobias Ellwood MP, chair of the Commons defence select committee, told BBC News he understood that more than 1,000 British nationals in Sudan have registered with the Foreign Office and there are “easily a couple more thousand” more who have not yet come forward.
Sam, a British businessman living in Sudan, told the BBC the situation was a “nightmare for those of us left behind” and that he knew people from other countries, including Hungary and South Africa, whose embassies are making plans to evacuate nationals. A photo posted on French President Emmanuel Macron’s official Twitter account of an aircraft from the French Air Force arriving in Dijbouti after picking up evacuees of different nationalities from Sudan Over the weekend the Irish Government confirmed it planned to send a team to Sudan to evacuate Irish citizens.
Airlifting large numbers of people out of Sudan has been complicated by the fact that most major airports have become battlegrounds and movement around Khartoum is extremely dangerous. US special forces also evacuated about 70 of its staff from Khartoum on Sunday but Washington has so far said it remains too dangerous to carry out government-coordinated mass evacuation of citizens.
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